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Donna Marie mentions some wonderful books and ideas in this post at her blog and I was hoping to gather ideas here for all of us to use for our Art Zones/Centers/Trays etc., since we're all in the *mega-planning* and creating stage right now! 
1)What Art Appreciation and Creative Art Project books do you use currently or have on a wish list?
2) What draws your children to Art and what do they usualy create when given carte blanche with materials?? (Mine LOVE to make little miniature sceneries, fairy houses, bead work of all kinds, drawing and painting  )
3) What do you have right now in a cupboard that you could whip up into a Tray today or tomorrow (no running to Michaels  )
Thanks, have fun with this and let the Creativity flow
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Meredith wrote:
Donna Marie mentions some wonderful books and ideas in this post at her blog and I was hoping to gather ideas here for all of us to use for our Art Zones/Centers/Trays etc., since we're all in the *mega-planning* and creating stage right now!
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I have the following on my wish list at Amazon: Discovering Great Artists, Teaching Art With Books Kids Love
I am going to use Draw, Write, Now which I currently have. I have purchased over the years several coffee table type books with beautiful artwork images for pennies at used bookstores. I cut the books up, laminate, and label with the title and the artist. These make for very inspiring art appreciation subjects.
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My kids love sculpey!! In fact I need to restock as they particularly love to mix colors! I need to find a better way to store sculpey than stuffing it into plastic ziploc baggies (probably some of those neat tackle boxes with dividers!) They also love some botanical rubbing cards we got a long time ago. These are a big hit. Other popular art media - color pencils, stamps and stamp pad.
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Hmmm...well let's see...I could put together a tray with the botanical rubbing plates, a few selected watercolor pencils, one of my favorite nature books with selected pages marked corresponding with the botanical prints, paintbrushes and a small bowl for water (can you feel my blood pressure starting to rise as soon as the two year old smells paintbrushes coming out?) some heavier art paper that can be used for rubbings and still hold the weight of the water brushed over the watercolor pencils. That seems neat to use after some of my botany lessons with the nomenclature cards.
Draw,Write,Now book with pre-selected image to coordinate with what we are studying/reading about in science, history, or favorite picture book. Also color pencils, art paper.
Origami basket with origami paper, instructions for folding paper.
Tray with color box 3 and color pencils, paper. Create a color wheel - identify primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.
Another tray with one laminated art card with a simple image/subject - maybe a boat or dog or something like that. Color box 3 - remove all color cards that correspond to the colors used in the painting. Create a color palette for that painting using color pencils. Sculpey could be used on this tray as well to combine colors if the art print would be better in sculpture. Fire in the oven afterward.
That's all I can think of for now - I'm sure I have more in there, but my dh just brought chocolate chip cookies and cold milk to me squashing all creative juices!! I'll read what you guys have as I munch on my cookies
Edited as I was munching on my cookies and noticing major grammatical errors. Sorry - I could have been distracted by the smell of the cookies!
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Meredith wrote:
1)What Art Appreciation and Creative Art Project books do you use currently or have on a wish list?
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We use Child-Sized masterpieces (Mommy its a Renoir) for art appreciation. For Creative Art- too many to list- I love art/craft books. Discovering Great Artists, Kids Create, Draw Write Now, many other "how to draw" type books, and history craft books (Old Testament Days, Classical Kids, Colonial kids etc) are all favorites. We also get art books from the library relating to what we are studying- right now its Japan. For my daughter who was 2 this past school year I used Young at Art which gave a suggested curriculum with picture book tie-ins following colors- it was a great extension of the color box work.
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My children are only drawn to art when I have a tidy area for them to do it - this means I have to keep my art area clean and/or present things on trays. I would like to come up with perhaps a weekly craft tray relating to our topic of study or the liturgical year.
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I would definitely like to make those sewing shapes in embroidery hoops that Theresa and Meredith have had on their blogs. Beyond that I'm sure I could come with lots of tray ideas just with what I have in the house! I'm thinking a rubber stamp tray, a stencil tray, a water color tray, various collages, perhaps painting some of those seasonal wooden shapes you can get at Michaels (pumpkins, snowmen, bunnies, etc), and what about a Rosary making tray for my oldest? I'm sure I'll come up with more ideas watching this thread!
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My littlest ones love Do-A-Dots!
I also got the paper punch activity from Montessori Services. They really like that one...especially when they achieve their goal for getting the object "punched" out all the way.
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(my son is three - and most of my daycare children this week are 2-4yo)
My son loves to draw lines and shapes - up until recently he's been just given blank paper and various media (colored pencils, markers, paints, etc), but he LOVES using the shape stencils and our *new* not-quite-metal insets to learn new shapes then try them on his own. I actually had to put away the geometric cabinet pieces for a while, because he's just all over them (I'll let him work with the insets for a while longer - he's just too excited (is that possible?)).
Trays: I've just put together some matching artwork ones (all holy cards and other religious prints) - it's been available but not just simply and easily set out.
I put out scissors and various types of paper to cut (strips, with and without lines)
tray with colored water in little bottles with droppers - to mix colors.
mosaic tray: little bits of colored paper from the cutting tray with a glue stick and a big piece of paper to make designs or just randomly paste pieces on.
sewing tray: my current crowd is just learning to do this so I have sewing cards out, but my son knows where the cloth is that he will sometimes will practice sewing on actual cloth.
what could I do quickly? playdough sculpture, painting with brushes or sponges, crayons and other drawing media, crochet and knitting for older kids, rubbings, magazine cutouts, watercolors, spraybottle painting (outside or in the bathtub), chalk drawings (indoor and outdoor).... wow, I need to make some activity cards so I can just flip through and choose stuff when different kids come over!
Thanks for prompting the thinking!
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I went in search of ideas for art trays, and found this older thread. It has such a wealth of information, I thought it would be nice to bring it back up again for reference.
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KackyK wrote:
My littlest ones love Do-A-Dots!
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What are Do a dots and what age group would love them?
My DS is 3 and I am always looking for ideas!
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KackyK wrote:
I also got the paper punch activity from Montessori Services. They really like that one...especially when they achieve their goal for getting the object "punched" out all the way.
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With the punch activity could you just use a big thumb tack and something they or you have traced? Would this work? I was thinking of having my ds punch it on top of a carpet square.
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Shannon-
Here is a link to a page with pictures of all sorts of do-a-dots sets and activity books. Think Bingo markers! I would say the youngers really like them...the ones who really don't feel the need to draw straight lines or exact shapes! The activity books have spaces to fill in, I believe (I haven't really seen one in person. We tend to just "dot" away on paper over here.
As far the punch goes...I don't know if you saw what it looked like in the first link I had listed, but it has more of "handle" than a large thumb tack. So a large tack might be harder, dexterity-wise, for a younger kiddo to hold. You could use the skinniest of all the screwdrivers in your dh's set...not one whose handle is short and fat, but just thin and somewhat shorter...KWIM
And I'd bet the carpet square would work...unless it is really plush
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What you're describing is exactly how my daughter did the punching activity at the Montessori school she attended last year. Big thumb tack on a carpet square....all the continents and the countries of North America, if I remember correctly.
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I just got Usborne Treasure of Art in early August. We did the first artist study Van Gogh. We had so much fun! My kids really enjoyed painting with the fork to make the texture he uses. I even noticed my dd went to our craft room (which was our master closet) and painted another painting a few days later.
I also want to do some ideas from famous paintings site.
My other thing I have is Child Sized Masterpeices. I didn't get any of the card sites yet though as I thought I would look through this first to get an idea of what to do. I did, however, pick up impressionist paintings cards featuring artist from the Chicago Museum of Art (my FAVORITE place!). We are planning a trip home next year and I'm taking my kids there to see them.
We also pull ideas from Waldorf and FIAR.
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Mostly it is me doing the activity with them. My dd will spend hours doing painting. The other day we did our chalk pastel drawings alà "Night of the Moonjellies" by Mark Shasha. I did the cover (pleasantly surprised at my ability to do it!). Grace tried to do a layering effect to make a dark sea like mine, but she decided on making a sun set with a pink/orange/yellow bleded background and a bright golden sun in the foreground. My youngest (2) even got in on the fun!
I do have a craft "room" for my children as well. There are paints, markers, paper, crayons, scissors (straight and scrapbook kinds), playdough, yarn, and sewing things. My kids will mostly paint and do hole punch and make books. My daughter loves to bead and do kniting too.
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You know what is funny but I did this! that is my main reason for wanting to post to this thread I made a water color tray for them. I have some mixed up water colors in jars (although they need re mixing now), nice paint brushes in different lenghts and sizes, 2 clean cups (to get water for rinsing), 2 rags to wipe off excess, and watercolor paper (under tray). I used it 1 time with them, but I need to remix the water colors. DD wants to do it again, but I keep not having it ready for her!
Another one would be beading. I have all the stuff to make it (wire, beads, and tools--with my help). I'd love to add in some cards for ideas but well I don't have that!
I also made a tray for crayon sharpening. I have 3 containers. 1 holds dull crayons, 1 for the paper peelings, and 1 for the finished ones. Crayon sharpener in the center. I showed my ds1 this way to sharpen a crayon
1. first take off the paper and put it in the 2nd container.
2. with your pincher fingers put in sharpening (otherwise it is clenched in the fist and broken)
3. tap with your pointer finger 3 times (he needed this to feel it was in there)
4. hold sharpener with left hand
5. twist crayon with pincher fingers of right hand
6. count to 20 and check work
7. if not sharpened repeat steps 2-5 and count to 10
8. when finished, put sharpened crayon into 3rd cup.
What is neat about this one, is that dd (5 1/2) messed the presentation so I had him show her. He is 3 1/2. He never told her just did each step. I now just have this setting out for them to do. I fill it from time to time with dull crayons and take the nice ones out.
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This sounds great, nice job!! I love how they did the work together 
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